Posted by kate in SHE SAID... on 08 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment
From The Open Road
Our road trip was more than we had hoped it would be. We both thought that it would take much longer to see all that we were able to pack into 91 days of life on the road. We stand amazed at the great memories that we have from such a rewarding time. I had concerns about our sanity after three months...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: The Northeast
Leg 5: The Northeast After a short but wonderful visit with my family at the family camping trip and then afterward in Indianapolis, we jumped back in the car and continued East. We detoured southeast to Cincinnati to see my cousin, diagonaled northeast through Ohio, barely grazed Pennsylvania and were...
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Posted by brett in HE SAID... on 08 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Favorite Road Trip Memories
This is one of several wrap up posts where I talk about highlights from our trip. Below I’m going to list out some of my favorite memories from the trip. There are lots and lots of memories, many of them fantastic, but this list below is the cream of the crop. Frisbee on the beach of Lake Michigan...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: The West
Leg 4: The West From Vancouver we drove several hundred miles west through the Canadian Rocky Mountains along southern British Columbia enjoying absolutely pristine landscapes. We then cut southwest through eastern Washington, the panhandle of Idaho, and landed in Montana. Montana surprised us and left...
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Posted by brett in through the lens on 08 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Favorite Photos - Slideshow
I am a photographer and really enjoy having my trusty Pentax with me at all times to capture and document my life and travels. I was thrilled to have discovered that over the course of our 91 day road trip Kate and I took more than 8,000 photographs. That’s an average of about 90 photographs per...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Flashback: Driving the Pacific
Leg 3: Driving the Pacific Brett loves the ocean, we’ve never spent much time on the Pacific Coast and I wanted to explore the Northwest - so we decided to drive the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada and explore along way. We had some amazing times along the coast including a fun stopover...
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Posted by brett in HE SAID... on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Favorite Drives
Avenue of the Giants, Redwood State Park, California This is one of several wrap up posts where I talk about highlights from our trip. As this was a road trip, we did a fair amount of driving. This wonderful country of ours is quite large and quite diverse, with large mountains, beautiful coastline,...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: Detour To The Coast
Leg 2: Detour To The Coast Although Route 66 would have taken us all of the way to the Pacific Coast, we opted to end our journey along Route 66 at the Arizona/California border. We wanted to make a few detours before ending up at the Pacific Coast. We stayed a few days in Lake Havasu City on the AZ/CA...
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Posted by brett in focus on food on 08 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Eating Our Way Across America
This is one of several wrap up posts where I talk about highlights from our trip. One of the best things about travel, for me at least, is the food. On this trip we really went out of our way to try food from local establishments - especially regional specialties when available. Below are some of my...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: Route 66
Leg 1: Route 66 We traveled for a few days at the beginning around Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. We got a sense for how much stuff we had packed, what it was going to be like living out of and sleeping inside of our ‘98 Subaru Outback. We then headed out along the remnant stretches of Route 66...
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